Quote Originally Posted by Egan101 View Post
Your 2 primary sites offer a good setup for a data center and a BCP site. Since you are opting for an infrastructure with no Cloud systems, both primary sites should mirror its capabilities so that when one goes down, you can easily do a failover to the other site with minor disruption. You need another SysAdmin person supporting Laguna with you in Makati.

The advantage offered by an infrastructure that has a Cloud component is that you can have some of your key applications stored in AWS or Azure for easy access to offshore sites. Assuming you got all the financial support, you need to plan out your company's network architecture to support your key business objectives. It's hard building an infrastructure when management tend to be so mindful of cost. It is wiser to spend now than having to face losses later when the infrastructure collapses due to limited capability or under-spec'd network equipment/devices.
Thank you sir. I really need to educate the management.

One of my justifications would be, a day downtime would cost us 1M against investing 500K/year for some opex. We are really system dependent now, so I think it would be a good argument.